An experimental exploration of the world of textiles, their manufacturing, their sale, and their consumption. It's not really worth sitting down, having a tea, and paying close attention to, because that's not the sort of purpose experimental docs like this serve. "The Grand Bizarre" is best suited for a screening room in a museum, where its 61 delightfully frizzy epileptic minutes can run on loop for days on end, where you can pop in, sit down, watch a few minutes of it until you get the point, and then leave. It's a diversion of a film, but in that context, it's really tremendous.
Especially because it's basically a music video that goes on for an hour. Put this on at a house party and dance around to it. The music slaps.
A couple of highlights:
- A surprise swastika! Formed by textiles tied to the ends of the blades of a ceiling fan in motion.
- Surprise "Rhythm of the Night," continuing the trend of "Rhythm of the Night" appearing in every movie in the late 2010s.
- The only film I've seen that ends with a sneeze, cut to black.
None of these are spoilers. This is an experimental documentary, not "Inception."